62 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula [No. 1, 
2. S. ornata, Wall, in Herb. Calcutta. A tree 20 to 30 feet liigli : 
young branches thick, glabrous, pale, the leaf-cicatrices very large, the 
apices deciduously pilose, coccineous drying into brown. Leaves thickly 
membranous, reniform, more or less deeply divided into 5 or 7 acumi- 
nate lobes, the sinuses between the lobes wide, the base deeply cordate ; 
upper surface minutely strigose, often stellate, minutely pitted ; lower 
surface yellowish-brown, minutely and uniformly tawny-tomentose, 
minutely glandular-dotted under the hair; the 5 to 7 radiating main 
nerves and the ascending secondary nerves bold and distinct; length 
about 12 in., breadth about 15 in. ; petiole 15 to 18 in. long, thickened 
at the base, minutely tomentose. Panicles from the axils of the pre- 
vious year’s leaves, solitary, 8 to 15 in. long, shortly branched, many- 
flowered, pulverulent reddish-tomentose. Calyx oclire-coloured with 
red fundus, veined, widely campanulate, sub-rotate, with 5 ovate acute 
spreading lobes longer than the tube, stellate- pubescent externally, puberu- 
lous internally; '75, in. in diam. Male flower ; gynophore about as long 
asthetube, curved, sparsely glandular-hairy, bearing at its apex 10 small 
anthers with thick connective. Female flower; gynophore thickened 
above, densely tawny-tomentose as are the conjoined ovarios and curved 
stylo ; the ovarios with a ring of about 10 sessile anthers at their base ; 
stigma discoid, rugulose, 5-lobed. Follicles about 5, sessile, coriaceous, 
narrowly oblong, very shortly beaked, brilliant orange scarlet when ripe, 
outside glabrescent, inside densely coocineous-pilose ; length 4 in., 
breadth 1'25 in. Seeds about 6, oval, smooth. Wall, in Voigt Hort. 
Calc. Suburb. 105 ( name only ) ; Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. xlii. pt. 
2, p. 258 ; Vol. xliii. pt. 2, p. 116; For. FI. Burm. i, 136. Sterculia 
armata, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 357, in part. Pierre FI. 
Forest. Coch-Cbiue, t. 185, fig. C. 
Burma!) ; Wallich, Brandis, Kurz. Andamans, Kurz. 
I include this species because, although the evidence of its having 
been collected in the Andamans is not very good, I think it extremely 
likely that it does occur there, and that good unmistakeable specimens 
will soon be forthcoming. The species in many respects resembles S. 
villosa, with which it appears to have often been confused. The distinc- 
tive marks to separate it from S. villosa are that the leaves are minutely 
dotted and pitted ; that the apices of the young branches have red hairs 
(becoming brown on drying) ; that after the hairs have fallen the young 
branches have pale polished bark with very lai’ge loaf-cicatrices and 
some warts, but no sub-persistent stipules ; that the flowers are larger 
( 75 in. in diam. as against '4 in) ; that the staminal column and gyno- 
phore are hairy ; that the follicles are larger aud paler ; and that the 
whole of their inner surface is densely hispid-pilose. 
